delectate
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If we do not mark passages and delectate over phrases, we receive an exquisite sense of harmony—and harmony is the last word of style.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard
"Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody."
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
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